{"id":357,"date":"2024-10-30T20:35:29","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T20:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.acsu.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/?page_id=357"},"modified":"2024-10-30T20:35:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T20:35:29","slug":"esagil-kin-apli-2nd-millennium-bc","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/key-players-in-the-ancient-period\/esagil-kin-apli-2nd-millennium-bc\/","title":{"rendered":"Esagil-kin-apli\n2nd millennium BC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Esagil-kin-apli was a Babylonian physician who served the king during the first Babylonian dynasty early in the 2nd millennium BC (around 1069-1046 BC). Among his accomplishments were his additions to the Diagnostic Handbook, a medical treatise created by various authors in Babylonia throughout the first millennium BC. Esagil-kin-apli\u2019s additions were based on a logical set of axioms and assumptions, including the need to inspect the symptoms of a patient in order to come up with a diagnosis. He felt one could also use the symptoms to ascertain etiology and prognosis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hee\u03b2el, N. P. (2004). Diagnosis, divination and disease: Towards an understanding of the rationale behind the Babylonian Diagnostic Handbook. In H. F. J. Horstmanshoff, M. Stol, &amp; C. Van Tilburg (Eds.) (2004),&nbsp;<em>Magic and rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman medicine<\/em>. (pp. 97-116). Boston: Brill Publishers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Horstmanshoff, H. F. J., Stol, M., &amp; Van Tilburg, C. (Eds.). (2004),&nbsp;<em>Magic and rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman medicine<\/em>. Boston: Brill Publishers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Esagil-kin-apli was a Babylonian physician who served the king during the first Babylonian dynasty early in the 2nd millennium BC (around 1069-1046 BC). Among his accomplishments were his additions to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":626,"featured_media":0,"parent":154,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-357","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/357\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}